This book was written by Andrei Andreevich Bolibrukh, an outstanding mathematician, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, laureate of the State Prize and the country's highest mathematical award - the Prize named after. A. M. Lyapunova. The book contains memories of his years of study at the Leningrad Physics and Mathematics Boarding School and Moscow University, as well as poems written in his youth. It reveals another side of the talent of this multifaceted man - his literary gift. Unfortunately, the author was not able to see this book during his lifetime. A. A. Bolibrukh died on November 11, 2003 in a Paris hospital at the age of 53, and it is still hard to believe.